Wednesday 17 November 2010

Leaving Pushkar




The chaos that is India at its best and worst was evident at the camel fair. Events that had their schedule changed at the last minute, events that ran but you could not watch them because they only used a part of their stadium and men on camel back got closer than the pedestrians and formed an impenetrable barrier BUT it was fun.


Thankfully we left our tented village just as it started to rain and then it poured! Amazingly I am not being seen as the weather gremlin but we left the Thar Desert under flood. The farmers have so little and to see their hay crop getting drenched was very sad.


The views of the fair are on Cath's camera so I'll leave you with some typical fauna of the desert, Blackbuck and Drongo

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